Despair Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I…

— Stuart Hall

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young…

— Evelyn Waugh

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off…

— Samantha Shannon

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you…

— Mark Haddon

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

— Munira Mirza

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

— Eric Greitens

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

— George Bernard Shaw

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead…

— William Butler Yeats

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one…

— E. M. Forster

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in…

— Alan Bennett

I live part of the time in Oxford, and I love it.

— Toto Wolff

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about…

— Tariq Ali